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vinyl tile over old vinyl AND concrete???

Haven't posted in awhile, but got going on a project and need some expert insight....isn K2 still out there? He always had such good ideas!!!!

The entry way and kitchen floor of the house I bought a year ago was covered in indoor/outdoor (aka utility) carpet.

I finally got sick of it and tore it all up.

Underneath I found a combination of circa 1980 sheet vinyl (mostly in decent shape), but with a very large (6' x 10 ') cement patch in the middle . The cement appears to be laid over the vinyl flooring, at least along the edges of the patch. On one edge of the cement patch the vinyl has formed a significant crack where the floor has settled, so the cement is cracking and breaking away there as well.

All this has resulted in a very uneven floor (though I don't have a level floor in this house, so that is not unusual)

(Guess I know why someome put down carpet in the kitchen!!!)

So I am pondering how to fix this mess? Lay down 1/4 plywood over all of it and tile over that? Use some sortof self-leveling product over the vinyl tile and weird conrete patch??